Break out your cameras (or your camera phones. You have to love technology.)

You have until 5 p.m. Friday, May 2, to enter the Times Union's annual Bulbs and Blooms Tulip Fest photo contest. Just shoot the most creative, humorous or beautiful photo of tulips you can bring into focus. The contest is for amateur photographers only.

Photographs must have been shot in Albany, Columbia, Fulton, Greene, Montgomery, Rensselaer, Saratoga, Schenectady, Schoharie, Warren or Washington counties. First-, second- and third-place prizes will be awarded. No more than three entries per person, please.

And we hate to break this to you, but we're not taking entries by mail anymore. Email those tulip photos and save a tree.

Email JPEG images to tucontests@timesunion.com. If you are scanning a 4-by-6 photo, do so at 100 percent, 300 dpi. For images from your digital camera, send the original camera file as a JPEG. Do not reduce or color-correct the file.

And be sure to include your name, address and telephone number with your email. Entries that don't comply with these rules will not be evaluated by the judges.

Winners will be featured in the Unwind section on May 11. All first- through third-place winners will receive gift certificates to a local garden center. Honorable mentions also may be awarded, if the judges love what they see.